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Gov't to set up committee to look into Left concerns on N-deal

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, Aug 30, IRNA
India-US Nuke-Committee
After the UPA-Left meet Thursday in the capital, the Gov't has decided to set up a committee to look into objections raised by the Left parties on the Indo-US civil nuclear deal and operationalization of the deal will take into account committee's findings.

"The operationalization of the deal will take into account the Committee's findings," a statement read out by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said after a meeting of the Congress and Left parties, bringing to an end the three-week stand-off between the two sides on the deal.

The meeting decided to set up a committee, the composition of which would be announced shortly.

Though Mukherjee did not take any questions after the 30-minute meeting at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence, the Left leaders said the statement makes it very clear that the government will not operationalize the deal till the committee's findings are known.

Ever since the details of the 123 agreement were made public, the Left parties had demanded that the deal should not be operationalized while the government maintained that there was no going back on the issue.

Matters took a serious turn when Singh dared the Left parties to withdraw support for the government on the issue and they hit back warning of serious consequences if the government went ahead with the deal.

The statement by Mukherjee said in view of the objections raised by the Left parties on the Indo-US bilateral agreement on nuclear cooperation, it has been decided to constitute a committee to go into these issues.

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